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title: Welcome to Unkey
description: API management redefined
mode: "wide"
---

Unkey provides an easy to use API management platform, including API key management, standalone ratelimiting and LLM caching.

## New to Unkey?

Start using Unkey with your existing project, or start from scratch.

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  <Card
    title="Quickstart"
    icon="bolt-lightning"
    href="/quickstart"
  >
    Get started with Unkey with your favorite language.
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="API Keys"
    icon="file-lock"
    href="/apis/introduction"
  >
    Learn how to use API Keys to protect, and scale your APIs
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Standalone Ratelimiting"
    icon="shield"
    href="/ratelimiting/introduction"
  >
    Protect public or private endpoints
  </Card>
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## Start building

Ready to use Unkey to power your API?

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  <Card title="Unkey API Reference" icon="database" href="/api-reference">
     Learn about our API that helps you manage APIs, keys, ratelimits and analytical data.
  </Card>
  <Card title="SDKs" icon="brackets-curly" href="/libraries">
   Integrate Unkey into your application with one of our SDKs
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  <Card title="Tutorials" icon="code" href="https://www.unkey.com/blog?tag=tutorials">
    Learn how to work with Unkey through tutorials
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## Join the community

Join the Unkey community to ask questions, discuss best practices, and share tips.

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  <Card title="Discord" icon="discord" href="https://unkey.com/discord" />
  <Card
    title="GitHub"
    icon="github"
    href="https://github.com/unkeyed"
  ></Card>
  <Card
    title="Twitter / X"
    icon="x-twitter"
    href="https://x.com/unkeydev"
  ></Card>
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